Alaska Federal Subsistence Board Proposals 2000-2015

• Main Authors: Taylor Brelsford, Steve Langdon, Jeanette Clark
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity 2018
• Subjects: governance; featured; Arctic; Indian; Norton Sound; Yukon; Kodiak; Kuskokwim; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/urn:uuid:105682b6-41f8-465c-b012-c29ad73aa59e

The Federal Subsistence Board (FSB) is the decision-making body that oversees the Federal Subsistence Management Program. Board members include the regional directors of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, the U.S. Forest Service, in addition to three public members appointed by the Secretaries of the Interior and Agriculture. Two of these public members represent rural subsistence users and one is the Federal Subsistence Board chairman. The Federal Subsistence Board has been delegated the authority to manage fish and wildlife for subsistence uses on federal public lands and waters in Alaska. Subsistence users can submit proposals to change existing Federal subsistence regulations for the taking of fish and shellfish on Federal public lands in Alaska. The board incorporates input from Regional Advisory Councils (RACs), the Office of Subsistence Management (OSM), the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG), and public comments, into the decision of whether to carry or fail a proposal. Once the Board makes its decisions, it will publish the changes as final regulations for that cycle of regulatory years and distribute the regulation book throughout Alaska. This dataset summarizes proposal information taken from proposal results logs, FSB meeting books, and meeting transcripts. Data are presented in tabular format for easier digestion of some basic aspects of the proposals (who proposed it, a short description, whether it passed, who supported it, what region/species are affected, etc.) More details on the coding process are found in the included text document.